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Why a US promoter has accused boxing’s heavyweights of putting him on the ropes
In an alleged conspiracy that he says goes all the way to the top of boxing, an up-and-coming boxing promoter has accused alleged crime kingpin Daniel Kinahan of frustrating his efforts to establish himself in the boxing business
To hear Edward Bissau Mendy tell it, he’s been blackballed, suppressed, intimidated, slandered and subjected to a possible assassination attempt; that he has been all but forced into hiding for fear of his life.
One of his problems is the alleged refusal, he says, of BoxRec – one of the biggest boxing records databases in the world – to record the results of fights in a succession of events he hosted in 2021 and 2022, ...
